Apache Friends Support Forum

Hey dudes

First of all thanks for reading this, I'm just begun learning PHP and XAMPP is an awesome tool to install everything needed to start working.

I hope any of you can help me with this little issue I got:

I first installed XAMPP Lite and everything went ok, but I noticed 1 little (maybe big) problem:

I can't use at the same time Windows Live Messenger and "see" http://localhost/, I mean, to use Apache and everything I need to actually "kill" the msnmsgr process because of it localhost and any other website does not open.

Theres a list of things I've done to make this 2 work but nothing worked at all:


I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP3, current XAMPP 1.7.3 (earlier used XAMPP Lite 1.7.3), ESET Antivirus 4.0.437, Netopia 2247-62 router.


- Uninstalled XAMPP Lite and installed XMAPP 1.7.3 (everything is the same, in this case)
- Did port forward on the router to all ports Live Messenger uses (this solved another problem but this don't)
- Did port forward on the router to ports used by Apache & MySQL (the router didn't opened port 80, said Web-TCP was using it but PortChecker always says port 80 is free...)
- Changed "HTTP, HTTPS scanning setup" on ESET Antivirus to don't treat Messenger as a web browser (this also corrected other boot problem I had but not this one)
- Changed ports on httpd.conf from :80 to :8080 (not worked neither so reverted this)

I don't know what else to do, it's not something crucial but I like to use both Apache and Live Messenger at the same time...


Any help is welcome, thanks again for reading this

Greets from Mexico!!!